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Rough day for Plymouth runners at New Prairie CC Semistate

NEW CARLISLE — Considering their goal all season was to reach this meet, it’s hard to imagine that Plymouth’s cross country runners would view Saturday’s New Prairie semistate as a “sucky day.”
But since the final results were so far from what they hoped, maybe it’s not so hard, after all.
“I think we’re way more prepared that what our times show,” said Plymouth coach Jami Holm following the season-ending tournament in New Carlisle. “I think we are way more prepared than what my kids looked like. I don’t know what else to call it than a sucky day.”
Plymouth’s runners made it their goal to reach the semistate since the start of the season. But needing to finish among the top 10 individual runners to qualify for next week’s state finals, they were far off pace.
Same story with runners from Culver Academies.
In the boys 5,000-meter race, Plymouth junior Kennedy Schnieders placed 140th in 18 minutes, 9.3 seconds.
Landrum Neer and Alejandro Tumoine of Culver Academies, meanwhile, took 83rd and 133rd, respectively. Neer clocked 17:31.1.
Warsaw’s Ellis Coon won the boys individual title in 15:45.5.
In the girls race, LaPorte’s Elena Lancioni came out on top in 18:11.3. Culver Academies senior Hannah Buggein, the top finisher among all Marshall County runners, was 38th in 20:09.1.
Plymouth’s two entrants were both dealing with various issues. Abby Patrick, a junior, caught a cramp in the first quarter mile and limped home 124th with a time of 21:30.1.
Libby Read, also a junior, hurt her foot during a school activity earlier in the week. She ended up 89th in 21:03.4.
“The two of them have talked about wanting to go to the state meet,” said Holm. “It wasn’t a good day today, but maybe when they are seniors, they will see it is within their reach.”
West Lafayette claimed both boys and girls team titles on a cold, blustery day. Stiff winds slowed times all around.
Schneiders was one of those who noticed the weather conditions.
“I felt decent through the (one mile) mark, but after that, it went downhill,” said Schneiders. “Ah, well. I’m disappointed because I expected to do a lot better than I did. But I guess you can’t have a good race every day.”